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1903
 
    
Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia       
1904
 
    
Wisley, in Surrey, is developed as the garden of Britain's Royal Horticultural Society       
1904
 
    
US inventor King C. Gillette receives a patent for a disposable safety razor       
1905
 
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A complaint about maggotty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration      
1906
 
  
More than 1200 French miners die in an underground explosion in the district of Calais     
1906
 
  
Fire destroys much of San Francisco following the most violent earthquake in the city's history     
1906
 
  
The Naturalization Act provides definitive requirements for naturalization as a US citizen     
1906
 
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The Pure Food and Drug Act, a landmark initiative in consumer protection, becomes law in the US     
1906
 
   
Alfred Dreyfus is reinstated in the army after the French supreme court overturns his conviction for treason      
1906
 
    
Alfred Dreyfus is awarded the Légion d'Honneur ten days after his conviction has been annulled